Means for folding and dispensing paper towels.



M. M. 001m. MEANS FOR FOLDING AND DISPENSING PAPER TOWELS.

I APPLICATION FILED $0110.15, 1913- L 1 Wfiwu Patented Feb. 23, 1915.

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MEANS FOR FOLDING AND DISPENSING PAPER TOWELS.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MAX M. COHN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Piedmont, .in the county of Alameda and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Means for Folding and Dispensing Paper Towels, of which the following is a specification.

This, invention relates to paper towels and pertains especially to means and a mode of folding and dispensing same.

While this invention is kindred to my two co-pending cases of even date herewith, it has. for its particular object, in addition to the folding of the towels so that only one can be withdrawn from its container at a time,

means enabling each towel to be so folded that whichever way it is placedin the container it will have a dependent flap.

The invention consists of the parts and the combination and construction of parts as hereinafter more fully described and claimed, having reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device. Fig. 2 is a detail section of the container showing the paper towels in place;

I Fig. 3 is a view of a double folded towel.

A represents a container having a lengthwise extending slot 2 in its bottom. The towels 3 which are stacked in the container have each a central portion of substantially the width of the container with twoend flaps 4, both folded underneath and toward each other and meeting or nearly meeting at the middle of the sheet. Each sheet is folded in the same way and laid one on top of the other and the slot 2 is so positioned slot 2 at'the same time. In other words, one

portion, as 5, of the bottom of the container,

. is preferably narrower than the width of a flap 4, while the other portion 6 of the bottom of the container is preferably wider than a section 4. In consequence of this Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Feb, 23, 11915, Application filed December 15, 1913. Serial No. 806,755.

construction and mode of folding the sheets, it makes no difference which of the flaps 4 rest on a section 5 or section 6 of the container. 'Whichever way the stack goes in there is surely a set of flaps 4 always in readiness to dro rsuccessively throughrthe slot 2, as the sheets are withdrawn singly.

WVhere a particularly longer towel is desired, or it is the desire to stack these towels in a very small package, the towel sheet may be first folded once upon itself andthen double folded at the ends, as shown at 4, Fig. 3. Where a sheet of the dimensions shown in Fig. 1 is used, it would permit the stack to be only one-half as wide. This double fold has a further advantage in that it renders the opening out of the towel a slower process which gives more time for the hands to drip and thereby effects a further economy in the use of the towels.

Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A stack of paper towels for use in a container having a slotted bottom, in which a lower sheet supports an upper sheet, and each sheet has a pair of lower flaps which are both disposed on the lower face of the sheet and which extend toward each other in confronting relation whereby both of the flaps will confront the slot and whereby one of the flaps is adapted to be projected through the container slot regardless of which way the stack is placed in the container. I

2. A stack of paper towels in which a lower sheet supports an upper sheet and each sheet has a pair of lower flaps which are both disposed on the lower face of the sheet and which extend toward each other in confronting relation and terminate at comparatively closely related points adjacent to the center of the length of the sheet and in which both flaps of an upper sheet seat on the body of a lower sheet to be supported and concealed by the latter.

3. A stack of paper towels for use'in-a container having a slotted bottom, in which a lower sheet supports an, upper sheet, and

each sheet has a pair of lower flaps which are both' disposed on the lower face of the sheet and which extend toward-each other In testimony whereof I have hereunto in spaced confronting relation which space set my hand in the presence of two subscribbetween the flaps is adapted for registry ing witnesses. with .the slot whereby one of the flaps is MAX M. COHN. '5 adapted to be projected through the slot Witnesses: regardless of which way the stack is placed S. SONNENBERG,

in the container. W. H. REINHART. 

